For high level travel teams, quality goalkeepers, CBs and left backs are the hardest to find. Obviously, coaches like goal scorers but the competition is much stiffer at the striker position. As for midfielders, most coaches don't play possession style and just use hard working and hard tackling players.

Left back for college recruiting

My 2 cents - I think the players who are harder to come by are "central" players - ones who play in the middle of the field - 6,8,10,9 - defensive/central/attacking mid or center striker/center forward. Good athletes with some skill can play wide as an outside back, outside midfield, or winger and use their speed - so these players are more common.

Players who can play around the perimeter of the field are easier to find than players who can play well in the interior.

1) a position on the team you are joining has a weak player in
2) a position on the team you are joining that you are better than the starter

The position finds the player. Not the other way around.

Marketable - an exceptional goalie (way above average height, vertical jump and great reaction time.)

Other positions are highly competitive bc of drive, athleticism and love of the game. Goalie is one slot where physical size cuts out a lot of competition. Not too many 5’5” boys can out jump a 6’4” kids.

Please let your kid enjoy playing and don't get involved with wherehe plays. But by your description, i am surprised he hasn't already had coaches calling him.

Anonymous wrote:Okay, fair enough, if you are looking at that side of the coin.

You have your answer, minus the good looking part.

Okay, fair enough, if you are looking at that side of the coin.

You have your answer, minus the good looking part.

Anonymous wrote:Marketable?

Scoring goals obviously. But being good looking obviously helps.

But I don’t think you meant marketable.

Actually. I did.


mar·ket·a·ble

/ˈmärkədəb(ə)l/

adjective


in demand.

"marketable skills"

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This helps alot. Thank you.

One thing that skews those values is that is that being English makes a player more valuable, and more marketable in England, which is where a lot of the money is these days.

Marketable?

Scoring goals obviously. But being good looking obviously helps.

But I don’t think you meant marketable.

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This helps alot. Thank you.

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I have a younger player on a top team (u8/u9/u10 range).

He plays most of the positions but I notice in a crunch, coach will put my ds in the same position because he is great in this position versus average in others. He does not score nearly as much as other players but he is a standout in other ways.

My question is, which positions as the boys get older (u12/13/14) will make a player more marketable or desired for a team. Or is it certain skills versus positions that make a player attractive?

On the flipside, which positions can almost any player play? (Least marketable)